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Tropical Modernism, or Tropical Modern is a style of architecture that merges modernist architecture principles with tropical vernacular traditions, emerging in the mid-20th century. The term is used to describe modernist architecture in various regions of the world, including Latin America, Asia and Africa, as detailed below.
Club Moderne, Anaconda, Montana.Designed by Fred F. Willson, 1937. 1430 Ocean Drive, Miami Beach, Florida, on a c. 1940 postcard.. Moderne architecture, also sometimes referred to as Style Moderne or simply Moderne, Jazz Age, Moderne, [1] Jazz Modern or Jazz style, describes certain styles of architecture popular from 1925 through the 1940s.
This category is intended for articles concerning architects, styles and buildings of the 20th century modernist architecture (i.e. high modernism in architecture). It includes the Bauhaus, Mid-Century Modern, International style, Brutalism, and other regional expressions.
The Bauhaus style co-started modernist architecture. [8] Modern architecture began after World War I as an avant-garde movement that sought to develop a completely new style appropriate for a new post-war social and economic order focused on meeting the needs of the middle and working classes. Emphasis was put on modern techniques, materials ...
The Congrès Internationaux d'Architecture Moderne (CIAM), or International Congresses of Modern Architecture, was an organization founded in 1928 and disbanded in 1959, responsible for a series of events and congresses arranged across Europe by the most prominent architects of the time, with the objective of spreading the principles of the ...
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Moderne may refer to: Moderne architecture, styles of architecture popular from 1925–1940s; PWA Moderne, an architectural style in the U.S., 1933–1944; Streamline Moderne, a branch of Art Deco architecture which peaked in popularity around 1937; Wiener Moderne, the culture of Vienna, Austria, 1890–1910; Grand Hotel Moderne, in Lourdes, France
Tyler finds this odd, given "the decidedly modern prose" of such "well-known Japanese writers as Kawabata Yasunari, Nagai Kafu, and Jun'ichirō Tanizaki". However, "scholars in the visual and fine arts, architecture, and poetry readily embraced "modanizumu" as a key concept for describing and analysing Japanese culture in the 1920s and 1930s ...